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 dramatic poems, but highly poetic dramas, not to be fully appreciated on the stage."

On the stage, nevertheless, after a lapse of fifteen years, it was destined to be performed with brilliant success, at the very theatre where it had before been so ignominiously rejected. This happy result was owing mainly to the good offices of Lord Byron, whose interest at the newly-rebuilt house secured its acceptance. The generous aid so opportunely extended by the noble poet to his less fortunate brother is one of the pleasantest episodes in the history of the much-maligned author of Childe Harold.

In Crabb Robinson's Diary we find the following entry, under date Nov. 3rd, 1812:—"Coleridge informs me that his tragedy is accepted at Drury Lane. Whitbread admires it exceedingly, and Arnold, the manager, is confident of its success."

Under date "Keswick, Jan. 17, 1813," Southey writes to his friend :—"Coleridge's tragedy, which Sheridan and rejected fifteen years ago, will come out in about a fortnight at Drury Lane."